Jim Shannon – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2015-11-23.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many women have suffered from hair loss in each of the last five years.

Jane Ellison

Data for the number of women with hair loss is not collected.

The number of finished admission episodes (FAEs) for women with a primary diagnosis of hair loss in each of the last five years is provided in the following table.

Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, Health and Social Care Information Centre

Notes:

1. The data are a count of admissions rather than a count of people, as the same person may have been admitted on more than one occasion.
2. The data only include activity in National Health Service hospitals in England, and do not include activity in private clinics unless they are NHS-commissioned or in a primary care setting.